Emotional Wellness

These resources can help you explore, understand, and fully experience your emotions; including coping with uncomfortable or unpleasant emotions.

General emotional wellness

Distress Tolerance: Accepting Reality
An exercise to help with distressing feelings that come from challenging situations

Radical Acceptance
A handout explaining the principles of radical acceptance and how they can help us with emotional wellness

Journaling Prompts
Use these 30 prompts to get the ball rolling

Tips for protecting undocumented communities
A list of actions to take to increase the safety of undocumented people, including a link to pro bono lawyers

NAMI Connection Recovery Support Group
Free emotional support group also available in Spanish


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For specific populations

Tool Kits and Resources from the Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective
A variety of resources for Black wellness, including journaling prompts, COVID-19 support, affirmation toolkits, building skills to connect with others, ways to honor your values, grounding practices, and reflections on reimagining Black masculinity

Mental health resources for immigrant and undocumented people
Includes directories for BIPOC, LGBTQ and Muslim-inclusive practitioners

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Mindfulness

Mindfulness is much more than a set of activities and originates as a practice that is and was part of multiple Asian and Middle Eastern philosophies and religions (including Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam). We, in the US, are lucky to benefit from the wisdom shared with us from cultures that practice mindfulness about its benefits to well-being.

About Mindful Eating with Buddhist Master Thich Nhat Hanh

Mindful Walking - with Thich Nhat Hanh in Barcelona (subtitles in Spanish)

Mindfulness, Buddhist, and LGBTQ Reflections by Larry Yang
Writings by Larry Yang on a variety of topics related to well-being and liberation

Now More Than Ever We Need Mindfulness
Reflections on mindfulness and compassion